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[The new police station at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering. – Vintage Photo Print

[The new police station at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The new police station at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering., [between 1880 and 1893]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A small police post built inside the grounds of the Imperial Gunpowder Factory is the subject here, a site where security mattered because of the explosive materials stored and produced nearby. The print comes from an album of Ottoman military facilities, schools, and factories, with captions in Ottoman Turkish and French, and was made by the photographic studio of the Imperial School of Engineering between 1880 and 1893. It belongs to the Abdul-Hamid II Collection at the Library of Congress, assembled during the sultan's reign, when the state documented its industrial and institutional projects. The image offers a plain record of a modest official building in a sensitive industrial setting.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. In album: Military facilities and personnel, schools, student portraits, and factories, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPolice stations--Turkey--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171870

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